Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Value of HIEI: Key Findings

• Standardized, encoded, electronic healthcare information exchange would:
  • Save the US healthcare system $337B over a 10-year implementation period
  • Save $78B in each year thereafter
  • Total provider net benefit from all connections is $34B
  • Net benefits to other stakeholders:
    • Payers $22B
    • Pharmacies $1B
    • Laboratories $13B
    • Public Health $0.1B
    • Radiology centers $8B
• Dramatically reduce the administrative burden associated with manual data exchange
• Decrease unnecessary utilization of duplicative laboratory and radiology tests

Notes:

First, let me share with you the Headlines, or the punch lines, of our analysis. (cite above)